Family and Stuff

As you can see, my title doesn't gel with what you're going to read in the next few minutes.

I read this from one of my favourite food blogger from Singapore who just returned from the Philippines.

Philippine men (and maybe people who travel there just for this purpose) loves to enjoy this delicacy of eating ducklings.

Mind you, they are not even out in this mean world yet and they are cracked out of their comfortable space in its egg and being eaten straight out from their flash.

Filipinos recon to eat them in the dark so you would not see what you're eating. Some finds it rather interesting, doesn't taste bad or just a little bit gooey.

One may come to a certain point of time when you chew, you'll feel something crunchy. Yes, it's their beak or maybe its delicate bones.





AND, the main purpose of having this delicacy in the first place was to perform better in bed.

Sigh.

I just find this so mean and disgusting.

Then my friend asked me "You don't eat duck meat or chicken?"

That is when I decided to just stop discussing about the topic.

Oh, and if you preferred them fried.


YUCK!!!!


Anyway, here's something so extremely different. In terms of the mood of typing and reading it. wtf.

Haha.

My family was here so we went to the temple and did a few things together. Not so much this time.

They decided to bring Tabeah to the zoo, but I don't really fancy KL zoo, so I just passed.

Before my family board the bus back to KB, Darling bought them dinner at our favourite steamboat place in Cheras.

My youngest sister

Then today, Darling and I decided to give Popeye a try.

Not TOO bad. But I still prefer KFC. :P

Their coleslaw is a little more green. Much healthier I would say, because you don't really taste the dressing.

Both of us love their mash potatoes. Something different as the one at KFC is so oily and unhealthy.

This is the 2 pc. chicken set. I love the bun! Its crispy on the top :)

This is definitely better than the on from KFC.

And so you can see, this is how we spent our long weekend.

Haha.

Anyway, we went to the park and ran for 45minutes. OK, I walked (very fast) most of the time. I seriously need my stamina back. I feel that my body has aged so much. I used to hike the mountain for 6 hours straight!

Geeeeez...

Have a good week ahead people!

My disappointment is beyond what words can ever describe...

Sometimes, we should just expect less and just do our best.

But yet! ...

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I do not know how to continue the post.

I'm just lost for words.

UPdates

It was a weekend with very much time spent with people I love.

A very slow and steady Saturday.

My mom (yes, mom's in town!) cooked lunched and we catch up over the dining table. So many things have happened in the pass year. We reflected through the times...happy times and the difficult ones.

Then, Darling, my aunt and cousin came over. We went to Pavilion because my house desperately needs a new fridge!

We went through a lot of fridges at Harvey Norman with very much excitement! We picked our favourite and ..................... think the price can get better at the LG shop? Or whatsoever.

Then we went home without a new fridge (yet!).

Darling, me, my sisters and cousins walked around Pavilion for a while before heading back home. But I asked Darling to bring me to Sungei Wang to do some shopping. :)

I bought my shampoo from the shop and Darling bought me my favourite cookie. Thank you.

We came back home to join the rest of the family for dinner. Darling then bought all of us tickets to watch the new animated cartoon by Disney Pixar - UP.



Its a very touching cartoon. Not too bad. But I just don't understand some people who would want to talk while watching a movie in the cinema.

"Uhhh... you see, I told you the old man's wife died"

"Yea, its so sad...."

"hahahaha, the boy is so cute!"

WE KNOW THE BOY IS CUTE! CAN YOU JUST SHUT THE F**K UP AND WATCH THE MOVIE!

Wah lau, it went on throughout the whole movie! Some people really have this bad habit of talking and repeating the stories to the friend beside them while watching.

If you, the one reading this, have this habit, please mute your voice when you're in the cinema. Because it is damn annoying. You're suppose to not even talk on the phone...you are disturbing the rest of the clan in the hall!

Bloody Traffic

And so I came home late on a Friday due to work and the traffic have started to go a little bit out of hand.

I was in front of Lin Ho and the traffic doesn't seem to move after 3 rounds of traffic light.


Why??

WHY?!!!!!


Because some selfish bastards who would block the whole stretch of road for their own sake.




You think you drive bus you can just block the road?

Don't you know that the vehicle you're driving has a VERY LONG body?

Ish....tsk tsk tsk

I mean, you should know how long should a traffic light last when they are red or before they turn green.

AND AND AND, there is a huge-ass yellow box painted on that space, which some of you might not know what it means!

It means.... no stopping in that yellow box!!!!!

Tsk tsk tsk...


And when I was waiting at the traffic light at Jalan Raja Chulan's turning into Bukit Ceylon, this guy in his red Proton Saga just blocked the road like how that Metrobus driver did (refer to picture above).

I was honking him to move! And everyone was honking at the same time...

And guess what?

He had the cheek to turn down his window and showed me the hand signal saying "I can't move front! Its stuck!"

Bloddy hell.

You cannot move to the front because it's jam right? Then why did you join the crowd there when you know the traffic will NOT move before my side of the traffic light will turn green?!

Moron.

Don't know how to judge one meh?

What more, if you can't go in front, reverse and move to the back la!

You see, because of ONE CAR, everybody at the back... like maybe 8 to 10 cars have to wait for him.

The worst part which I was so annoyed was when he had the cheek to turn down his window and tell me that he cannot move.

Hey, you are wrong in the first place ok!

Idiot.


And after I turned into Bukit Ceylon, I faced not just a normal 2-way street traffic, but for some reason, the traffic wasn't moving either. Sigh.

And so after some waiting....

I found this...
Again! That smart Proton Saga guy (zoom in to spot the number plate) was blocking the whole traffic!

And it was about 10 minutes before we could have a smooth traffic.

What is with drivers these days? Can't you NOT be so selfish by blocking the road? If your car is small then MAYBE you can still squeeze in between. But you are driving a huge car OK. You're blocking the road.

With lesser of all these people, our traffic shall be a little smoother.

THINK! and drive.

God bless Malaysian traffic.

Ben & Amelia's Wedding

We took some time to take a dip in the swimming pool at my place. Seriously, is it really that hard to learn how to tread water for 10 minutes and to swim 200m? I really can't!


After the swim, we dried ourselves and I prepared for a wedding dinner.


Yep, it was Ben & Amelia's wedding (Darling's colleague). I should proudly proclaim that I haven't been to a wedding like that in my life, so far.


I took about an hour to prepare. Poor Darling, he waited for so long in the living room. :S

Anyway, we bought KFC (YESSS!) to fill our stomachs before the dinner, because ya know, wedding dinners tend to start later than expected.

Then, it was my turn to wait for Darling to prepare. :)

Here's me cam-whoring

It was drizzling when we went for the dinner. And I would say, the environment was OK but not to my liking, because the event basically had lots of other people (who are not guests of the wedding) walking pass the area. And the food? Just fine. No comments.

The fish

Prawns. I skipped this because you-kn0w-what

I didn't even bother what is this but that one looks like prawns or some seafood?

The newly-weds? Lovely!

We did lots of catch up. It was months since I met Darling's ex-boss. She's kinda cool. And I love her 2 children to bits. :)

Here's the groom and Jennifer catching up

A picture of us :)

And oh, see how much he'd grown.
This is Jennifer's son. The best Iron Man fad I've ever seen.
And he's so cute!

A picture of all of us, ladies and the groom.

The ladies at the table

A picture with Wei May and Gina, my longtime friend :)

Me with Sam and I Rene

A closer shot with I Rene

With Wei May

Here's JC

And us, again ... hehe

Well as you can see, I have more pictures with the girls rather than the food or the newly weds. Not that the food is bad or the environment was dull... but we just had great company at the table with people who love taking pictures like me. Haha.

And, the environment just make me miss the Industry again. Yeah, yet again.

Oh sigh, I guess we could only, sometimes, dream of doing some things but not being actually doing it. My partner is in it. So I'll just tumpang the fun. Haha!

I just came back from Eason Chen's concert @ Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach. Nothing to shout about because, to be honest, I barely know his songs. What a shame! But he's cute and funny though :)

Have a great week ahead!

XOXO,
yourRascal

The Weekender

First and foremost, here's a picture of yours sincerely .... hahahahahahaha



That was taken during the sister's wedding, exactly about a year ago. How time flies~ And I never felt better :)


Darling bought tickets for us to watch GI Joe. Not too bad. I love the guns and the Joes. The planes? They're amazingly cool! However, some reviews said that it lack the "uummppphhhh" so much so that the cartoon is so much better than the movie.


Hmmm... I guess not many people could direct a film like Steven Spielberg for the movie Transformers, eh?


Anyway, you should watch it for yourself. It's not toooo bad.


Before the movie, we went to the food court at Food Republic @ Pavilion for dinner. We always have a hard time deciding what to eat for dinner and we'll settle for the food court. I'm pretty simple with food. Just give me anything except beans and taugeh and I'll shove it into my stomach. Of course, I do have my favourites lah.


We always wanted to try this atas satay selling at Food Republic and Darling bought them last night as a side dish.


See, it was served in a cup with the gravy neatly on the side compartment (if this is what you call it).


Darling counted and he said that averagely, each stick of satay cost about RM1. Geeezzz!




Gravy neatly on the side :)


Oh, this is something I have always wanted to blog about. If you notice, some shopping malls like Pavilion opted this hook at the back of the toilet doors in each cubicle, which to me, is not practical at all!


Each time I hang it on the upper stick my bag or shopping bags would slide down due to the smooth side of the metal. wth.

Anyone facing the same problem as I did? Do you have another amazing way of using it? Am I hanging it on the wrong side or what?


Please enlighten me!

Happy Weekend!

XOXO,
yourRascal

Alright, I had my graduation... who wasn't there?



Was it you?

Or, YOU?

Where were you during my graduation?

I mms-ed Wendy, my best mate since college up until Uni.

She quickly replied "Why didn't you tell me?! I would have taken leave to be there with you!"

I was immediately touched by her responds. She's really my best mate, and a friend you can always trust and rely on for a listening ear, giving you the advices you need to hear.

Darling was so spontaneous. It's just him.

"Crap la you convo"

meaning: bull-shit la you, it's not your graduation ceremony

Hahahahhhaaha


Yeaaa...It was my students' convocation ceremony.

Well, excuse me with all the crap early in the morning alright. I woke up extra early, thus, get crappier. With the hype of wearing the boring robe for more than 6 times in my entire life NOT for my own graduation, I need something else to bring my attention away.


crap. I know.

Sweet Haslina & I

Vee & I

And so it was the turn of the academics (me!) to walk into the convocation hall. At this moment, loads of cameras would be flashing at us. I felt like some celebrity for that 2 minutes. And that's it.

Then, we have the speeches by our President and an invited guest.

We had to bring our spirits up high at all times as we were sitting at the 3rd row with cameras in front of us, ready to capture unforgettable moments of our students. Since the camera may aim to student sitting near us, there is a really small possibility that it may capture us. So, we really had to keep our spirits high. wth. Haha.


So, as usual. I whooped out my camera and began capturing my own moment.

Aimi and I

And oh, I had 2 colleagues being conferred their Master's Degree. Congrats!

Then, we only waited for the moment to grab our lunch before the afternoon session starts.


We walked to Avenue K for lunch!


Then, the session started and we found really interesting messages our students (which were then shown on the big screen when they walk up to get their scrolls) could ever write.

Some didn't miss thanking everyone around them.
Some thank only their parents.
Some only acknowledged their friends for some reasons.


AND, only a handful thanked their lecturers.


You tell me, what your problem harrr..... Who impart academic knowledge to you? Who gave you a chance to shine among your friends? Who was the one who had made your life in uni interesting? Ok, maybe I'll leave the last reason out...


Anyway, it was just me bragging/joking. You thank whoever you want-lah. It's your moment. As long as you are happy. Just have us, your teachers ... in your hearts. We do appreciate you at all times too :)

Although they weren't my students, but I felt the pinch of ovewhelming pride when these students walk up to receive their scrolls.

Its an honour and not everybody get that chance to have that moment. Really.

Like me, I'll be missing my garden-themed convocation ceremony in Adelaide due to several reasons.

Ahh...anyway, I may be able to make it for the one at Nikko Hotel in KL. We shall see. :)

Oh, on the other note, here's my new sitting position. I could be chatting with you or working my butt off on the comfort of my bed now. Thanks to Ikea. A bit flimsy though. But who cares, it was on sale for RM16. :)

Cherios!


XOXO,
theRascal.